On 22 nov, 22:59, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > processes (Vigenère) > So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication > has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by > minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you > may have heard: a will that could be read (in part) as either "a chacun > d'eux million francs" or "a chacun deux million francs" with the > remainder to a 3rd party. > of course. My purpose is not doing something realistic on a cryptographic view. It's for learning rudiments of programming. In fact, coding characters is a kind of cryptography I mean, sometimes, when friends can't read an email because of the characters used...
I wanted to strip off accents because I use the frequences of the charactacters. If I only have 26 char, it's more easy to analyse (the text can be shorter for example) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
